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BIGWAVEDAVE

06/30/09 10:12 PM

#10520 RE: narbi #10519

TALK ABOUT A F--KED UP GOVERMENT, osk says they started to build them a mounth ago, & already ordered more steel to meat the deadline, alittle insider info I'd say.:::::
Bohn said his company was reaching out to the losing bidders for possible subcontracts, a move that some analysts said could help avert a protest against the Pentagon decision.

Jim McAleese, a Virginia-based defense analyst, said the Oshkosh vehicle outperformed the other trucks in at least 32 days of survivability testing by the Pentagon program office and combat soldiers.

He said the Pentagon was still expected to buy the full 5,244 trucks it had planned, with a second large order to follow in short order. (Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; editing by Carol Bishopric, Leslie

Bleedson

06/30/09 10:51 PM

#10521 RE: narbi #10519

001 could have been the original order for 3 units apiece for testing.